Dr. A Gopnik: When children are better learners than adults
Room: 56
Alison Gopnik: When children are better learners than adults are: Theory formation, causal models, and the evolution of learning.
Join us for a lecture by Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller, “The Philosophical Baby,” and, most recently, “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children.” Abstract: In the past 15 years, we have discovered that children are adept at inferring causal relationships. But are there differences in the ways that younger children, older children and adults learn? And do socioeconomic status and culture make a difference? I relate these findings to computational ideas about search and sampling, to evolutionary ideas about human life history, and to neuroscience findings about the negative effects of frontal control on wide exploration. Advance registration requested.
This event will be live streamed.